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Excerpts from Bill Ayers' Interview With Fox News
time.com ^ | Feb. 23, 2009 | Mark Halperin

Posted on 02/23/2009 12:38:31 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

Alan Colmes recently taped an exclusive interview with Bill Ayers – and tonight, for the first time since Hannity & Colmes – Alan will appear on-set with Sean to discuss and air the interview (tonight on Hannity, 9:00pm ET on FNC). (Screen grab of Ayers attached).

Some highlights from the interview include:

Ayers on President Obama sending 17,000 additional troops to Afghanistan:

“It's a mistake. It's a colossal mistake. And, you know, we've seen this happen before, Alan. We've seen a hopeful presidency, Lyndon Johnson's presidency, burn up in the furnace of war.”

“I fear that this brilliant young man, this hopeful new administration, could easily burn their prospect of a great presidency in the war in Afghanistan or elsewhere.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thepage.time.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alancolmes; ayers

1 posted on 02/23/2009 12:38:31 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

He uses the term “burn” a couple of times.....


2 posted on 02/23/2009 12:42:51 PM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Interviewing an unrepentant terrorist and doctrinaire Marxist; I’d expect nothing less from Colmes.


3 posted on 02/23/2009 12:42:56 PM PST by CedarDave (Pray that during the next four years we don't lose the America we so love.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Errs is stuck in the 60’s.


4 posted on 02/23/2009 12:43:34 PM PST by Paladin2 (No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:

Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders

Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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The Center for Public Intellectuals & The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)
April 19th-20th, 2002, Conference

[Participants include: William/Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Sen Barack Obama]

April 19th-20th, 2002
Chicago Illini Union
828 S. Wolcott

This conference is part of the Center's mission of helping to create a more engaged civil society, working towards social change, fostering coalitions between theorists and activists, and combating anti-intellectualism in contemporary culture. It will be both a celebration of ideas and a rigorous examination of the roles and responsibilities that intellectuals play in society.

I. Why Do Ideas Matter? (a keynote panel)

We introduce the “meta” theme of the conference by hearing “success stories” from diverse voices discussing their experiences intervening intellectually.

Timuel Black, Chicago activist; Prof. Emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago
Lonnie Bunch, President, Chicago Historical Society
Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern University Law School, Children and Family Justice Center
Gerald Graff, UIC, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Richard Rorty, Stanford University, Philosophy

III. Lunch and Public Encounters

Alternative breakout tours led by Chicago activists. Tours of Bronzeville and other communities, and visits to organizations that are working on partnering theorists with activists.

IV. Intellectuals in Times of Crisis
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations.

William Ayers, UIC, College of Education; author of Fugitive Days
Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University, Center for International Human Rights
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Political Science
Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune; In These Times
Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator
Barbara Ransby, UIC, African-American Studies (moderator)

The Center for Public Intellectuals
University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC):
http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm
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From American Thinker, September 16, 2008
Article: Obama's Foul Weather Friends
By Scott Swett and Roger Canfield

"As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who [Bernardine] Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam. Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he 'left the room to cry.' He said, 'I realized...America was an evil... and that I was... living inside the belly of the beast...' "

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/obamas_foul_weather_friends.html
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Must see video!

"Undercover agent Larry Grathwohl discusses the Weather Underground's post-revolution governing plans for the United States:

Larry Grathwohl:

"I asked, 'well what is going to happen to those people we can't reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?' and the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers. And when I say 'eliminate,' I mean 'kill.' Twenty-five million people. I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people. And they were dead serious."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWMIwziGrAQ
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So, would Mr. Ayers do it all again, he is asked? "I don’t want to discount the possibility," he said.
New York Times, September 11, 2001:
"No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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'Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country,' he [Ayers] said."
August 2001, Chicago Magazine (article: No Regrets)

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2001/No-Regrets/

5 posted on 02/23/2009 12:44:26 PM PST by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: CedarDave

To think that at one time this man was viewed as a radical, now he is seen by many as a mainstream kind of guy.


6 posted on 02/23/2009 12:48:03 PM PST by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Alan Colmes and William Ayers together alone with a camera? It isn’t gay porn we’ll watching???

Part sarcasm, part serious. How can Alan Colmes disagree with a lefty hero like Bill Ayers? Is he going to ask, “Mr. Ayers, of course I disdain the military just as much as you, but wouldn’t petitioning Congress to shut off funding be better than trying to blow up the fascists pigs?”


7 posted on 02/23/2009 12:48:47 PM PST by Professor_Leonide (I said to the young man who showed me a photo, "Who can ever be sure what is behind a mask?")
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To: ETL
Ping for later.

Blood pressure too high right now...

8 posted on 02/23/2009 12:59:25 PM PST by SENTINEL (SGT USMC GWI)
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To: SENTINEL
Blood pressure too high right now...

Man, do I know what you're feeling! Especially with all the dopes on our side who STILL don't get what Obama and the hard left are about.

9 posted on 02/23/2009 1:10:42 PM PST by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Paladin2
Errs is stuck in the 60’s.

It isn't just Ayers! The commie left is more influential today than ever before. They just inserted one of their own in the White House!

10 posted on 02/23/2009 1:17:04 PM PST by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: stainlessbanner

Ayers shouldn’t even be breathing God’s air
and Fox wants to legitimize him with a prime time interview!?


11 posted on 02/23/2009 1:28:21 PM PST by Semper Mark (THE PROOF THAT HE HAS SOMETHING TO HIDE, IS IN THE FACT THAT HE'S HIDING SOMETHING!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“insoucient ennui” are the two words that come to mind when Ayers’ mug shots are posted. “stuck on self”, “narcissistic nancy boy” are a few others (but then that’s an insult to nancy boys everywhere). sigh. . . oh, and “insoucient” may not even be a real word, but it still fits.


12 posted on 02/23/2009 1:41:56 PM PST by Twinkie (WHAT ABOUT SOME MSM FAIRNESS?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Boy, I would so love to buy that man a beer. And then stuff the bottle down his big mouth. I can hardly think of a more repugnant man than William Ayers. He deserves to be dropped off in Harlem in KKK robes.


13 posted on 02/23/2009 1:47:37 PM PST by West Texas Chuck (US out of the UN - UN out of the US)
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